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ROUND-UP is another name for
Jamboree or Field Day or Rally. It
takes just as many troops as there
are in a community and no more to have
a Round-Up, and a field or armory or
other arena in proportion. The Round-
Up can be held any time of year. Be-
cause of the value that Kansas City, Mo.,
sees in such an annual affair and the suc-
cess that attends their annual Round-Up
each spring, we present below a statement
by Scout Executive Edward C. Wright,
Jr., explaining the methods and the under-
lying principles of this form of Scouting
demonstration. The program of the 9th
Annual Round-Up of the Kansas City
Council, held last year (the tenth will be
held May 20 of this year) shows that
practically the whole scheme of Scouting
is represented in 12 numbers, as follows:
(1) Opening of exhibition with grand en-
try and review of all troops, flag raising,
and other ceremonies. (2) Genesis of
Scouting from first Indian scout up to the
present. ,(3) Bicycle scouts. (4) Fire-
by-Friction demonstrations. (5) Voice
and pep drill and exhibition of leadership.
(6) Knot-tying. (7) Signalling. (8)
Games, including Fireman's Carry. (9)
Special demonstrations by special troops.
(10) First aid demonstrations. (11) Wall
scaling and use of trek cars. (12) Pio-
neering and camping, including the use of
wireless, and the building of towers. Mr.
Wright's article follows:
THE Scout Round-Up is our biggest
event, coming off every spring. All
of our troops look forward to it with en-
thusiasm and interest. It is a mass dem-
onstration of Scouting. For the last three
years about 1,500 boys have taken part in
each Round-Up before audiences of from
7,000 to 10,000 people, and many people
have been turned away.
Preparation for the Round-Up starts
two to three months in advance. The fea-
ture of which we are the proudest is the
promptness and well organized way in
which the affairs are handled. Last year's
Round-Up with about 1,500 boys on the
floor at one time, representing some 70
troops and with a program of 12 different
events, some with as many as 200 boys,
was scheduled to start at 8.00 P. M. and
SCOUTING, APRIL, 1922
Putting a Rally Over
close at 10.15. The grand entry parade
marched on the floor at exactly 8.06 and
taps blew over the camp scene set up by
the boys in the final event, at 9.58, releas-
ing the audience promptly at 10.00. Not
more than 50 people out of a capacity
audience estimated at over 8,000 people, left
the hall before the close of the perform-
ance. Every event was scheduled on and
off with so many minutes allotted to it,
and a time keeper watched schedule.
Troop "What-You-May-Call-It" is the
clown troop which generally puts on a
one- or two-minute burlesque of each
event. This is very popular with the
younger part of the audience. The theory
of the program is to get just as many boys
taking part as possible; and in the mass
events, to give just as many troops as pos-
sible a chance to have representatives on
the floor. All events are reported to the
director of preparation outside of the
arena. He lines them up, brings them to
the entrance of the arena and at the proper
time sends them on where the director of
the floor takes charge of them. Each
event is stopped by signal on a large gong,
when all boys clear off the floor on the
run, reporting directly back to their troops
which are seated on the floor around the
edge of the arena. With this orgff Na-
tion there is not a single wait in the entire
program.
We find that the Round-Up is a splen-
did piece of "selling" publicity and results
in the formation of many new troops each
year. It is a tremendous incentive for the
boys in all troops to get themselves uni-
formed. Objections can be raised to the
big massed event in a city-wide activity of
this kind, but we feel that the benefits
more than outweigh the objections.
An Eye Opener!
Little Fred Moore Says It!
Fred Moore, too young to be a scout,
but faithfully reading BOYS' LIFE, puts
the big mission of BOYS' LIFE wonder-
fully well. He clearly interprets what we
mean when we say the work of BOYS'
LIFE is "to make Better Scouts and More
Scouts," Note his two points:
1. BOYS' LIFE, while holding him in
line for scouting, is helping him be a Good
Scout.
2. BOYS' LIFE copies handed to
friends do a far reaching recruiting serv-
ice for Scouting. (Moore's letter fol-
lows.)
"When I am old enough to be a scout, _ I
want to be a good one, and BOYS' LIFE will
be a great help to me. * * * I am going to get
some of my boy friends to take it, too, by lend-
ing them mine to read and getting them inter-
ested. I think BOYS' LIFE will help me to
be a better boy." Fred Moore, Jr. {Texas).
Did You Know That
DID you know that the 21,071,651
white families in the United States
buy 21,282,367 magazine subscrip-
tions in one year? (Figures by Curtis
Publishing Co.) Can you imagine how
huge is the army of spare time and full
time subscription salesmen who daily call
at the homes of these 21,071,651 families?
Do you realize that these subscription
workers almost always walk out without
ever thinking of the boy of the family and
his right to his own magazine to inspire
him, direct him, fill his dangerous idle
hours with the Scout Quality reading in
BOYS' LIFE, The Boy Scouts' Maga-
zine ?
Literally, millions of American boys are
being sadly neglected because most maga-
zine men and women do not realize that
BOYS' LIFE, The Scouts' Magazine, is
just as good for and even more needed by
the boys who are not yet Scouts.
Scout people can see to it that every
subscription salesman or saleswoman in
the country remembers the Boy and
BOYS' LIFE in all business calls.
Who is the local subscription agent, the
man or woman who visits the homes of
your neighbors and friends getting the
yearly subscription orders for the adult
magazines? Will you send him a post-
card asking him to call so you can show
him BOYS' LIFE and tell him what a
worthwhile gift it will make for all Boys?
And send BOYS' LIFE the names and
addresses of these subscription workers,
too. We will quote commissions, etc., and
help them and the Boy, and that means
SCOUTING.
S. #
Ninth Annual Round-Up of the Kansas City, Mo., Local Council, That Jammed Convention Hall, the City's Largest Assembly
Place, to Capacity with Crowds Turned Away
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